So it has been awhile since I've updated. I am still in San Antonio and finding it quite enlightening and amusing at times.
Freddy's sister and her husband have been kind enough to let us stay at their house and make our selves at home. They are very accommodating and sweet to us. It's nice to be around family, even if they aren't mine. :)
I do still find it quite strange to be in a place for Christmas with no snow. This is completely foreign to me. It sure is different from the South Dakota and Alaska Christmas'. It still cracks me up to see people's decorations in the yard and no snow around them. It kind of just looks like people threw random things in their yard. They are pretty at night though.
Last Saturday, Freddy's mom invited us to a benefit for a community center that they built and for the girl scouts. We did attend and I had quite the good time. There were 3 comedians, a mariachi band and a couple Tejano bands. Completely oblivious to what they were singing about, I still had a great time. The music is just so upbeat and fun. It was like a dance hall from the movies. Everyone dances and has such a good time doing it. It was a sight to see. I'm not much of a dancer, no, I like dancing but don't feel confident enough until I have a few adult beverages. It was just as much fun to observe from afar.
On Sunday, I got to take part in a tradition that makes me very happy. Maybe it's the way that it takes place, maybe it's the people that I got to do it with or maybe it's the fact that I know how to make TAMALES now! So very exciting for me. It could have been the amazing ladies that I got to do it with also. :) It was his mom, sister, two aunts and his cousin. And the guys were watching football and checking on us every once in awhile.
Freddy has quite the sweet and humorous family. We started in the afternoon and didn't finish until the evening. Almost 20 dozen of these delicious little tamales and lots of laughs later, I was very enlightened. My tamales started out quite large, so everyone got a good laugh, I said they were Texas sized.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale This is a good site, that explains them better than I.
This week we also had a funny experience when we went to pick Jody up at the airport; it was kind of a last minute thing so the actual travel information got a bit confused. We waited in the airport and when the time came that he was suppose to get in, he wasn't there yet. Upon talking to him on the phone and describing things that were around us, we discovered that he had flown into San Antonio. We got a good laugh out of it and Jody had a cute waitress at Hooters so it was all good after all.
Last night we went to a play at the Majestic. It is a beautiful theater, I'm not sure the age of it but it was a real treat to get to see it. The play was A Tuna Christmas. A Texas play, I guess the only way to explain it is a cross between Garrison Keillor and Red Green. Two guys played every part in the play. It was kind of silly, I guess you kind of have to have that kind of sense of humor though.
Tonight we are going to his cousin's house to BBQ so that all the cousins can see each other, they are all in town at the same time. Should be a good time.
And then Christmas shall arrive and we are going to hang out at an aunt's house and his mom's. I hope this finds you all full of Christmas cheer and you get to be with those you love this holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Peace.
